Chapter Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

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Jin, Wen [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Nicht definiert Reihen: Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural HistoryVerlag: Florence : Firenze University Press, 2023Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (10 p.)ISBN:

9791221502428

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Zusammenfassung: This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in EnglandPPN: PPN: 1885768370Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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